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The Anti-Defamation League condemned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as the “leading anti-Semite in America” after a speech in which he blamed “Israelis and Zionist Jews” for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “At a time when anti-Semitic attitudes are at historic lows, Farrakhan’s unabashed promotion of anti-Semitism is a throwback to the intolerance of another era,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement issued Thursday. Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic remarks, delivered his speech Sunday in Chicago as part of his Saviors Day 2015 sermon. “It is now becoming apparent that there...

GREENBELT -- One of the men accused of setting fires at an upscale housing development in southern Maryland made racist and threatening comments about blacks moving into the homes and was angry that the "neighborhood is going black," according to court documents made public Thursday. The allegations about Aaron Speed, who worked as a security guard at the Hunters Brooke development in Indian Head, emerged from an interview with another man charged in the fires, Jeremy Parady. The interview was detailed in search warrant affidavits unsealed in federal court. Speed and Parady are among six men charged with arson in...

Authorities seek to question van driver in arson; Vehicle was seen leaving Charles Co. development; 'Potential witness, but possibly something more' INDIAN HEAD -- More than one arsonist is believed to have set fires that destroyed 10 homes under construction and damaged 16 others in a Southern Maryland subdivision, investigators said today. Deputy State Fire Marshall W. Faron Taylor said fire investigators also discovered 11 other arson attempts in the Hunters Brooke subdivision. Evidence collected at those houses, which were not damaged, is of monumental value to investigators, he said. "We are strongly considering that this act had to have...

Fires Engulf Multiple Homes in Charles County Updated: Monday, Dec. 6, 2004 - 7:42 AM INDIAN HEAD, Md. - Firefighters in Charles County are working to contain at least fires at 11 or 12 homes in a new development. Charles County officials confirm that all the homes on fire in a neighborhood near Indian Head were under construction and weren't occupied. County government spokeswoman Nina Voehl says the four-alarm blaze was first reported just before 5 a.m. at the Hunters Brooke subdivision off of Route 225. The fires are on Hunters Brooke Drive off Hawthorne Road and are scattered throughout...

CBIRF Responds to Ricin Scare, Helps Secure Federal BuildingsSubmitted by: Marine Corps NewsStory Identification Number: 2004211151659Story by Cpl. Clinton Firstbrook HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2004) -- For the first time since the 2001 anthrax attacks, a team of the Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force was called into action Feb. 3. A 161-member team, headquartered at Indian Head, Md., responded to a call from the capitol police, after a postal worker at the Dirksen Senate Office Building found ricin in a mail sorter Feb. 2. The ricin, a highly toxic chemical derived from the castor bean,...

Logo reinstated 2/25/2003 By a vote of By five to one, the Osseo-Fairchild school board voted Monday to reinstate the previously banned Indianhead logo. Efforts now are underway to add a referendum to the April ballot. The referendum would ask voters whether the use of the former chieftans logo as appropriate. While referendum questions were not finalized in Monday's special school board meeting, it didn't come without opposition..including a pre-meeting protest and one arrest. District officials say getting the referendum on an April ballot would be difficult, however, board members say a decision is needed now rather than later. Groups...

<p>Weapon: An inspired team of scientists in Maryland rushed to build a device that could wipe out the mountain hideouts of Taliban and al-Qaida forces.</p> <p>Destruction of the cave's mouth was frighteningly complete. The bomb had skipped through the entrance and erupted in a violent spray of jagged steel, blasting the walls and floor into dust. Where there was wood, suddenly just ash and vapor.</p>